A Running Inquiry—Nature Asked the Questions During This Jog: Discovering in a Maine Forest a “Call of the Wild” | NSTA

A Running Inquiry—Nature Asked the Questions During This Jog: Discovering in a Maine Forest a “Call of the Wild”

Journal of College Science Teaching—May 1998

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue, during a morning jog, the author vowed to interact with nature along the jogging path of the Maine forest in the context of discovery rather than only in the context of verification. He decided to practice what he had been preaching in his teaching methods classes.

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